Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
For the last two days, I haven’t been blogging much, but I’ve been collecting stuff to read and share with you. In no particular order, my collection: Are you an old fart? I certainly am, and proud of it. There are several expressions that cover the need to make a
Continue readingMoveOn.org has created an online poster that has been getting a fair amount of play on Facebook. The page is entitled “The #1 Reminder Every GOP Lawmaker Needs To See.” It then quotes “American Hero” Jamie Raskin, a law professor, before successfully running for Maryland’s State Senate himself, testified before
Continue readingI will never forget my first ultrasound, when I was pregnant with my first child. I was not an enthusiastic pregnant woman. It was my husband, not I, who wanted children. I had them only (a) because when I married my husband I felt I owed him a family and
Continue readingThis is just the week for me to have sex on my mind. It’s not my fault, though, because the culture insists on pushing it into the forefront of my brain. Ours is a sex saturated culture. Progressives like it that way and want it to stay that way. Conservatives
Continue readingConservatives of all religious stripes have been attacking the ObamaCare mandate regarding birth control and abortifacients on religious grounds. The Obama administration’s response was to introduce an “accommodation” under which the insurance companies will henceforth offer these medicines and services for “free.” Anybody past the age of five understands that,
Continue readingAs others have commented, the Catholic Church is making the loudest noises about the new Obama Care mandate regarding birth control, abortifacients, and sterilization, but the policy is really a strike against everyone who is pro-Life in America. If you’re a pro-Life employer, you have to pay for your employees’
Continue readingJonathan Last has as good a summation as any I’ve seen of the now open warfare between Barack Obama and his erstwhile ally, the fairly liberal American Catholic Church. The article ends with an effort to understand why Obama would pick this battle, and why he would pick it now.
Continue readingBarbara Boxer has taken to the pages of the Huffington Post to explain why the administration’s mandate that all insurers provide birth control, including drugs that induce abortion, advances rather than restricts, religious freedom. If you like Orwell’s Newspeak, Boxer’s writing is a thing of beauty and will certainly be
Continue readingIn the halcyon pre-Obama days, when Prop. 8 meant that gay marriage was a hot blogging issue, I argued that religion organizations, not the state, should be allowed to define what constitutes a “marriage,” with states confined to authorizing “civil unions.” In that context, I commented upon the religious implications
Continue readingA few days ago, writing with regard to the media’s decision to ignore the standing ovations Newt received during the last South Carolina debate, I asked “If the Press Ignores an Event, Does It Exist?” The press, it turns out, wants to take that experiment in ignoring facts as far
Continue readingHere’s the lede: The great thing about living in San Francisco is that it is socially and culturally responsible. The bad thing is, a city that is so socially and culturally responsible can’t resist taking the bait when a fringe group tries to provoke a reaction. In a non-Bizarro world,
Continue reading(Market Street, by Alfonso Jiminez) Market Street is San Francisco’s main drag. There are other major streets in the City, but Market Street the one that starts just below Twin Peaks and travels diagonally northeast all the way to the Ferry Building. It traverses the Castro District, the outer fringes
Continue readingRepublican voters, struggling to decide which candidate will best handle the myriad problems facing America under the Obama regime — problems that include a stagnant economy, a collapsing Europe, a boiling Middle East, etc. — were treated to a New Hampshire debate that focused on . . . birth control.
Continue readingDavid Axelrod’s talk yesterday included a shout-out to the lovable Nancy Pelosi, whom he feels is unfairly maligned by the Rushes of this world. Per David, Nancy is not an effete San Francisco liberal. Instead, she’s a tough political operative — for all the right, i.e., Progressive, reasons, of course
Continue readingOne of the Progressive tropes is that conservatives are anti-science. As with everything emanating from the Left, not only is this untrue about conservatives, but it falsely implies that Progressives respect science. One only needs to see the celebration about a defeated initiative in Mississippi to appreciate how deeply anti-science
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